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CoreCivic LIED about WATER TESTING....read the report...
Managing company of a controversial detention center in Dilley, Texas, says water at its facility is safe. City of Dilley did not test it.
Lab reports obtained by N+Univision Investiga show that the city of Dilley didn’t conduct any water quality tests directly to the Processing Center at Dilley, Texas during 2025. However, CoreCivic, the company that manages the center, has maintained that the city tests its water supply monthly.
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A Texas immigration lawyer breaks down family detention, habeas corpus and Senate Bill 4
Children walk between structures at the Dilley detention camp. Credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Charles Reed
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In the Trump administration’s war on immigrants — adults and children alike — South Texas is a nexus.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested 33,583 people in the San Antonio and Harlingen areas of responsibility between Trump’s first day in office and March 10 of this year, according to the agency’s data. In Minneapolis, three ICE agents who shot people have a Rio Grande Valley connection. The Department of Homeland Security plans to put hundreds of miles of buoys in the Rio Grande, 17 of those miles being in the Valley, to allegedly stop people from attempting to cross. Texas’ only licensed Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi court interpreter was detained in Harlingen’s airport in March, which also happens to be where ICE flies many of its deportees out of the United States.
And the Dilley detention center, officially the Dilley Immigration Processing Center or previously the South Texas Family Residential Center, which sits about an hour southwest of San Antonio, was reopened by the Trump administration after ICE (during the Biden administration) had closed it in 2024. Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, infamously detained in Minneapolis, were sent to and released from there earlier this year.
Daniel Hatoum is a San Antonio-based senior supervising attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project. The Texas Observer spoke with him in early June about family detention, how habeas corpus cases becamede facto immigration law, Senate Bill 4, and what mass deportation does to society.
TO: Dilley detention center has become a common name right now in the immigration news lexicon, but most people may not know what it is, besides its name and that Liam Ramos and his father were detained there. The Texas Civil Rights Project is part of an effort with the Texas Immigration Law Council called Operation Clear Out Dilley, which is an attempt to help release the 50 or so children in the facility. Can you describe who’s held there, and under what legal authority? What does daily life look like?
It’s a family detention facility, which means it’s a facility where parents and their children are held together. These types of facilities have been used because the detention of children is a very fraught exercise. Children could face additional harms that adults may not be subject to when it comes to detention. During the Bush administration, there was a concerted effort to try to detain families out of a fear that people might be coming over the border with children and using those children as a way to avoid detention.
The first big family detention center is actually still a detention center today: It’s the Hutto Detention Facility in Taylor. There was a lot of litigation about that. The government did not do well in that litigation, and that facility ultimately had to stop detaining children.
During the Obama administration, what ended up happening is that they implemented family detention as well to try to detain folks, and they opened two facilities, the Karnes family detention facility was the first one, they also opened the Berks [County] facility in Pennsylvania, which is very small, then they needed an even bigger facility, and that’s when Dilley was opened. That one holds the most amount of family detention beds that we’ve seen.
It’s a former natural gas camp that has all these trailers, so when you hear [Congressman] Joaquin Castro talk about it, I believe he refers to it as the “Dilley trailer prison.” That’s a pretty accurate description. … So, who’s there? Well, it’s parents and their children, but the age of the children doesn’t exempt them from detention there. So, tender-age children can go to family detention centers. Children who are infants can be in a family detention center. There have been high-profile cases of babies that have gone to family detention centers. Our client in the “Ms. Z” case, which we took on last year, was a six-year-old with a history of leukemia.
Food is rotten in Dilley. There’s no other way to put it. That’s what’s happening. I guess the only other way to put it is worm-filled, because it’s often filled with worms. It’s not child-appropriate. Remember, when you have children who are as old as 16 months, 18 months, they have very specific food needs, and we’ve heard multiple reports from many folks in the detention facility that those needs were not met.
The other thing that’s worth pointing out is that the American Academy of Pediatricians has indicated, since 1997, when the first big case about children’s detention came out, that any time in detention for a child is extremely harmful. It causes children to suffer; it creates long-term developmental problems. … Family detention center has this feedback [loop] where parents are put in a position of helplessness because they can’t get what their children need because the administration will not give them what they need, and the children are watching their parents be helpless, the parents are watching their children suffer and they’re only spiraling worse.
The administration has claimed all sorts of new authorities to detain people when it previously wouldn’t have … people who have received parole to be in the country, who received permission to be here, who were released on their own recognizance, who the government said, “You are not a flight risk, you are not a danger. We will not detain you,” and the government takes that back and says, “Actually, who cares? We’re going to detain you.”
So, under what authority? Their whims, and the fact that there are people in charge right now who think they can get away with it.
Protesters gather earlier this year for a protest at an ICE family detention center in Dilley, south of San Antonio.Credit: Michael Karlis
SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
She was denied care until she almost died.
Her name is Amalia, and her case isn’t a one-off.
Her family was here legally. Yet they were locked behind barbed wire for months in the Dilley detention camp in Texas. While trapped inside, little Amalia became deathly ill.
She was burning alive with fever, vomiting, and suffocating. She lost 10% of her body weight in the blink of an eye.
Her mother begged for help. The guards ignored her until Amalia was literally on the brink of death.
Amalia was taken to two different hospitals in Texas where she was diagnosed with pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV, bronchitis, an ear infection, and respiratory failure, all at the same time.
Let that sink in… She spent two weeks fighting for her life in the hospital only to be thrown right back into that disease-ridden camp during a massive measles outbreak. To make matters worse, guards confiscated her life-saving medications.
This isn't just cruelty, it is a war on children.
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